Relationship between Philosophy and Sociology in Durkheim as Continuity and Rapture

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This article aims to analyze the relationship between Emile Durkheim s sociology and its philosophical contexts. Departing from Durkheim s book Sociology and Philosophy, a collection of Durkheim s essays, tlJe article proposes a lecture on Durkheim s thought underlining the tension and the mutual interaction between normativity and descriptivity. This article also provides a deeper examination on whether the social philosophy [philosophie du social] or sociology is a matter of concern in Durkheim s thought. Hence, the article focuses mainly on the idea that the rupture between Durkheim s sociology from philosophy is partial. Durkheim, while trying to establish sociology as a discipline apart from philosophy, identifies the fundamental problems of philosophy with a sociological view under the title of general sociology. Thus, continuity between sociology and philosophy can be mentioned in Durkheim s thought as well as a rupture.

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The rapport between sociology and philosophy , nonnativity , descriptivity , morality

Turkish journal of sociology

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Turkish journal of sociology